Krish Pandey, a Class VIII student of Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar, participated in the 7th National Level Exhibition and Project Competitions (NLEPC) held at IIT Delhi.

He was among the 860 national-level participants, out of which 80 were from Karnataka. At the nationals, 60 students from all over India were honoured with the Inspire Awards and Krish Pandey was one among them. He had developed an app - Fake Document Classifier, which ties into Digital India’s visions.

The ‘Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research’ (INSPIRE)-MANAK scheme is one of the flagship programmes of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.